In this episode of the Wild Lives by Faunographic podcast we chat to Andre Bauma, a legendary ranger, guide and wildlife rescuer who has devoted his life to caring for the mountain gorillas of Virunga National Park, in the Congo.

The first time I got close to a wild silverback, he turned his back and let his digestive tract do the talking with a resounding “parp”. It was not the “Dian Fossey meets Digit” love encounter I’d hoped for on my visit to Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park – but I was lucky it even happened. […]

Growing up, I was always in trouble for letting my wavy hair get a little feral. Mum would put me in a semi-headlock and furiously tug my steel-wool mane into semi-submission, all the while berating me for looking like “the wild man of Borneo”. Which basically taught me that the wild man of Borneo was my […]